A heads up if you’re within striking distance of Charleston, W.Va. This month’s free Charleston ArtWalk features a superb exhibit of remarkable historic West Virginia photos previously profiled in two audio slideshows on WestVirginiaVille.

A video tracks the start of this week’s March to Blair Mountain with an excerpt from a Charleston Gazette story that raises a question of whether coal companies are attempting to affect the march’s forward progress.

If you live outside West Virginia, it’s more than likely you may know next to nothing about one of America’s most horrific industrial disasters. But the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster is no ancient history, says a documentary filmmaker.

What do “Sweet George Brown,” “Lean on Me” and avante-garde classical music in the round all have to do with West Virginia? Hear and see the answer in a visit with the founder of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.